Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:54:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:54:35 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.105]:41366 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:54:34 -0400 Subject: Re: kernelNFS(lockd) problem and patch suggestion To: Trond Myklebust Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2a (Intl) 23 November 1999 Message-ID: From: Juan Gomez Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:00:06 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D03NM694/03/M/IBM(Release 6.0|September 26, 2002) at 10/07/2002 18:00:06 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2714 Lines: 55 OK I will do so...hopefully "Marcelo" is reading these postings as I do not have his direct email. Regards, Juan |---------+----------------------------> | | Trond Myklebust | | | | | | | | | 10/07/02 04:51 PM| | | | |---------+----------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Juan Gomez/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS | | cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org | | Subject: Re: kernelNFS(lockd) problem and patch suggestion | | | | | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| >>>>> " " == Juan Gomez writes: > After taking a look at the code I realized that the lockd > thread sets grace period and then goes to sleep for a long time > waiting for messages and the first message always gets > processed before checking if the grace period has completed Please could you rediff using the '-u' option and drop the MIME attachment thingy (See Documentation/SubmittingPatches). Patch otherwise looks quite correct, so once the patch format is OK then, by all means send it off to Marcelo and (if you could bang up the same patch for 2.5.x) to Linus too. Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/